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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/ choreographer Lily Eng formed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES. INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE AND INCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT. MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972] MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and… ⊕
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.
The videotape MONEY is assembled from downloaded MP4 sequences depicting exchange and currency transfers – whether digital or old school paper variety. This hyper-pecuniary landscape also hosts a cellphone dialogue between two friends overwhelmed by technological determinism and by post-post Fordist economies strained… ⊕
2025, 16:46 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 653.21
Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and energetic durational experience… ⊕
A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕